The widget provides quick access to your notes, requiring
fewer clicks to open than the app. The trade-off is that,
since widgets have a timeout associated with them, your notes
will only be viewable for a short period of time after
opening. This makes the widget ideal for quick reminders.

The app takes a few more clicks to open, but once open, notes
will remain visible indefinitely. This makes the app ideal for
viewing longer, more detailed notes, like instructions or TODO
lists.

To get the best of both worlds, you can install both the
widget and the app use which ever is more appropriate for your
particular use-case.

The reason for this seemingly low limit is that Garmin® watches
are generally more limited in terms of processing power and memory
than other types of devices. A longer notes takes more memory and
takes longer to process.

Older versions of Note2Watch had a limit of 512
characters so if you still have that limit, be sure to
upgrade the app and widget on your Garmin® device to
2.0 or greater.

Creating Notes

To create a note using the website, click the + button on
the note list page. Once you've entered your note data and saved
it, your note will be available on your Garmin® device the next
time it syncs.

To create a note using an email, simply send an email to
watch@note2watch.com. The subject will become the
title and the body will become the contents.

For the note to be routed to the correct watch, the email must be sent
from the email address you signed up using.

You can also use email to update an existing note. To do this you can
either:

Ensure that the subject line matches the previous note's
title exactly

Or, you can include a tag in the subject line. A tag is a
word or phrase in square brackets, for example
[todo]. It can appear anywhere in the
subject, but usually makes sense at the beginning or the
end. If a tag is used, any note that has a matching tag
will be replaced.

To display tabular data on your watch, you can use a table note. Make
sure you're using version 2.0 or greater so that
table notes render properly.

There are two ways to create a table note, the easy way using the
table editor or the more advanced way using
special formatting characters called table markup.

To create a table note the easy way, click the down-arrow next to
the + on the note list page and select the number of
columns in your table.

To create a table using the advanced table markup technique, create
a regular text note and embed the appropriate formatting
characters. See the next section for a description of the table
markup format.

Creating a table note with table markup is just like creating a
regular text note except that you use special formatting characters
in the note contents to describe how the table should look.
For example to make a table that looks like:

Ex

Wt

Reps

Pullups

8x3

DB Curl

40lbs

8x3

You would use the following formatting in the note contents field:

[ Ex | Wt | Reps ]
| Pullups | | 8x3 |
| DB Curl | 40lbs | 8x3 |

As you can see, columns are separated by a | character.
Each row of data starts and ends with | and | characters.
An optional heading line starts and ends with [ and
] characters. You don't need to use spaces to
line up the columns, that will happen automatically.

IFTTT can be used
to automatically create notes using a recipe. Since the note must
originate from your email address and not IFTTT's, the best way to do
this is to use an email provider's 'Ingredient', like Gmail.

You can also use IFTTT's handy DoNote application
(iOS/Android) to quickly send a note to your watch from your phone.

Troubleshooting

First, ensure your phone and watch are configured correctly by
following these steps:

Make sure Bluetooth is enabled on both your phone and the
watch

Make sure the phone is near the watch, Bluetooth has a limited
range

Make sure the Garmin Connect app is running on the phone

If you're still unable to pair, try closing and re-opening the Garmin
Connect app on your phone. It can occasionally get 'wedged' where it
stop responding to Bluetooth connections. Closing and reopening the
app can fix this.

Finally, if pairing still doesn't work, try rebooting both your phone
and watch and making sure Garmin Connect app is started on the phone.
If after trying this pairing still doesn't work, contact us at
feedback@note2watch.com
.
and we'll get you sorted out!

In the past, Note2Watch did not support Unicode (non-ASCII)
characters, so they were replaced with a '?'. Now that Note2Watch
supports some Unicode characters, you should be able to edit any note
containing a '?' and replace it with the correct character.

Widgets on Garmin® watches have a relatively short timeout which
unfortunately cannot be adjusted. On an up-to-date Vivoactive™ this
is 45 seconds. A workaround is to periodically tap the screen: this
resets the timeout giving you another 45 seconds.

You can also use the app version of Note2Watch which does not
have the timeout limitation, so notes will be visible until
you close the app.